Interesting Links and Possible Discussion Topics
- Paul Ford, "What Is Code?" (Bloomberg, 2015): Long(!) article about code, what it is, and how it functions in modern business practice.
- The Deep Web and Darknets
- Evegeny Morozov: How the Net Aids Dictatorships (TED talk, Video) and "The Real Privacy Problem" (2013)
- DARPA's Memex: Government search engine for scouring Deep Web for crime
- Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (The Atlantic, 2008)
- Douglas Engelbart (inventor of the mouse, among other things) and his 1968 Demo.
- J.C.R Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis" (1960) & "The Computer as Communication Device" (1968)
- S. Papert, "What's the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea
power" (2000)
- Text Encoding Initiative: Consortium seeking mark-up standards for digital text representation in the humanities.
- The Wikipedia Game